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Visa advice please!

  • 07-08-2013 11:01pm
    #1
    Laaw Raahhhh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭


    Signed up just to ask about this so please please help!

    Me and my friend are off to Thailand in November for 2 months as part of a TEFL internship where we don't get paid so as far as I am aware we need just a tourist visa for 60 days. However, once this is done we really want to go see the rest of South-east Asia,specifically Vietnam and Cambodia but want to see as much as we can!

    Thing is I am really unsure what the story is with visas that we will need. The plan was to work to pay our way around but working visa appear to be a lot more difficult to sort out then a standard holiday visa.

    Do you need to always have employment lined up before getting a working visa, or can you see when you get there? Are working visas more expensive than holiday visas? From what I have looked at so far they appear to be.

    This has led me to think that saving more before leaving and getting holiday visas is better for us than paying our way around and having to get a few working-holiday visas. I guess I just would love to know how other people traveled and worked around South-east Asia? We also really want to use our TEFL qualification and experience to get jobs over there, so I'd really like to know do you need a job lined up, just finding it hard enough to know who to email about getting a job!

    Sorry if any of that is confusing, just beginning to look into visa and confused myself by it all. Again any help is very much appreciated!!


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  • #2
    castie
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭castie


    Not sure if its interests but Hong Kong give Irish people working holiday visa's which are easy enough to get (3-4 weeks) and you can use your tefl there.


  • #3
    mopi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭mopi


    I've been out in thailand a few times and spoke to people who used TELF (including my brother). The best method seems to be to have as much cash as possible and use TELF to minimize your living expenses (food/bed) rather than expect to earn real money. In Thailand people do a VISA run to the border every month or so, the Thai VISA situation keeps changing but you usually get the best VISA by applying before you leave home I think you can still get a 90 day one. NOTE the first time you exit Thailand that VISA will lapse regardless of the dates stamped on it. When you enter Thailand by land crossing you get a much shorter duration VISA [2 weeks iirc]. Booking a cheap flight from PP or where ever into BKK is not a bad idea.
    Aside from immigration officer scams Laos and Cambodia are easy deal with at the border.
    If you plan a lot of country hopping make sure you have plenty of empty pages in your passport, they do love using full page stickers.
    Good luck with the trip, I'm dead jealous.

    PS to the best of my knowledge no one used a work visa in Thailand but ask around. Bring copies or have online links to degree qualifications (if any) the Thais like that I'm told.


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